According to today's headline data, the performance of cucurbit silk has certain skill. The player of Down the Mountain can't play the high note 2 due to various reasons such as instrument quality or playing skills, while the low note 6 shows the distinctive pronunciation characteristics of this range. Music accompaniment needs to add low-note-level harmony foil to better coordinate the acoustic effect of the whole instrument combination. Players choose to use low note 6 instead of high note 2 to achieve similar acoustic effect.

The playing skills of cucurbit silk are as follows:

1. Vomiting is an important technique in cucurbit flute playing, which can be divided into three types: single vomiting, Shuang Tu vomiting and three vomiting.

2. Single spitting is to hold the first half of the palate with the tip of the tongue (that is, the state before the pronunciation of the word "spit") to cut off the airflow, and then quickly let go of the tongue and blow out the breath.